Anthropic commits $10 million to Canadian AI research

Anthropic 承诺向加拿大人工智能研究投入 1000 万美元

Canadian institutions and researchers have played a critical role in the modern AI era. During a period of broad skepticism about research into neural networks, the University of Toronto and the Université de Montréal were two of only a handful of institutions that incubated this crucial line of work, while researchers at the University of Alberta did pioneering work on reinforcement learning. And in the early 2010s, Canadian research institutions led the way in demonstrating that with the arrival of powerful new computing resources—in particular, general-purpose GPUs—deep neural networks could succeed at scale, kicking off the modern era.

加拿大机构和研究人员在现代人工智能时代发挥了至关重要的作用。在对神经网络研究普遍持怀疑态度的时期，多伦多大学和蒙特利尔大学是少数几个孵化这一关键研究领域的机构之一，而阿尔伯塔大学的研究人员则在强化学习方面进行了开创性工作。2010 年代初，加拿大研究机构率先证明，随着强大的新型计算资源（特别是通用 GPU）的出现，深度神经网络可以实现大规模成功，从而开启了现代人工智能时代。

Today, Canadians both at home and abroad continue to play leading roles in AI research, safety, and policy—including at Anthropic. That’s why we’re committing $10 million CAD to Canadian research institutions to fund the next generation of this work. We’re also publishing our first Canadian country brief based on the Anthropic Economic Index, which provides a snapshot of how Canadians are putting Claude to work.

如今，无论是在国内还是海外，加拿大人在人工智能研究、安全和政策方面继续发挥着主导作用，包括在 Anthropic 内部。正因如此，我们承诺向加拿大研究机构投入 1000 万加元，以资助下一代相关研究。我们还发布了首份基于“Anthropic 经济指数”的加拿大国家简报，概述了加拿大人如何利用 Claude 开展工作。

Investing in Canadian research

投资加拿大研究

The $10 million we’re committing will fund research into beneficial and responsible applications of AI. As part of this, we’re announcing partnerships with Canada’s three leading regional AI institutes—Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) in Edmonton, Mila in Montréal, and the Vector Institute in Toronto—along with CHEO, The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Université Laval, University of Toronto, and the University of Saskatchewan, with more partnerships to follow in the months ahead:

我们承诺投入的 1000 万美元将用于资助人工智能的有益和负责任应用研究。作为该计划的一部分，我们宣布与加拿大三家领先的区域人工智能研究所建立合作伙伴关系——位于埃德蒙顿的阿尔伯塔机器智能研究所 (Amii)、蒙特利尔的 Mila 以及多伦多的 Vector 研究所。此外，我们还与 CHEO、成瘾与心理健康中心 (CAMH)、拉瓦尔大学、多伦多大学和萨斯喀彻温大学达成了合作，未来几个月还将有更多合作伙伴加入：

Amii, based in Edmonton, will provide Claude credits to its research and engineering teams to further their work in areas like reinforcement learning and AI trust and safety, as well as to increase AI adoption across Canada’s key economic sectors.
Amii（位于埃德蒙顿）将为其研究和工程团队提供 Claude 额度，以推进他们在强化学习、人工智能信任与安全等领域的工作，并促进人工智能在加拿大关键经济领域的应用。
Mila, the Quebec AI institute home to the world’s largest concentration of academic deep learning researchers, will make Claude available to its community to support their research in areas including responsible AI, health, sustainability, multi-agent systems, and robotics. Mila will also use Claude to develop AI assistants that help researchers discover and assess scientific breakthroughs.
Mila（魁北克人工智能研究所，拥有全球最集中的学术深度学习研究人员）将向其社区开放 Claude，以支持他们在负责任人工智能、健康、可持续发展、多智能体系统和机器人技术等领域的研究。Mila 还将利用 Claude 开发人工智能助手，帮助研究人员发现和评估科学突破。
The Vector Institute in Toronto will use Claude credits to advance AI research in trust and safety, health and science, and the broader challenges that AI is uniquely positioned to help solve for Canadians.
多伦多的 Vector 研究所将利用 Claude 额度推进人工智能在信任与安全、健康与科学领域的研究，以及人工智能在解决加拿大人面临的更广泛挑战方面的独特作用。
CHEO and the CHEO Research Institute will use Claude credits to develop and evaluate AI-enabled approaches aimed at improving health outcomes and the care experience for children, youth, and families, and to study how AI can be most responsibly applied in children’s health.
CHEO 及 CHEO 研究院将利用 Claude 额度开发和评估人工智能驱动的方法，旨在改善儿童、青少年及其家庭的健康结果和护理体验，并研究如何以最负责任的方式将人工智能应用于儿童健康领域。
CAMH will make use of Claude credits across its research, education initiatives, and clinical projects. For example, CAMH’s Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics will use Claude to conduct computational mental health research, including developing and evaluating predictive models of treatment for people with mental health conditions, and running large-scale evaluations of fairness in psychiatric AI systems. Credits will also be used to help scale the impact of the CAMH Global Learning Academy, which is developing multilingual, AI-enabled mental health education.
CAMH 将在其研究、教育计划和临床项目中利用 Claude 额度。例如，CAMH 的 Krembil 神经信息学中心将使用 Claude 进行计算心理健康研究，包括为心理健康状况患者开发和评估治疗预测模型，并对精神病学人工智能系统的公平性进行大规模评估。这些额度还将用于扩大 CAMH 全球学习学院的影响力，该学院目前正在开发多语言、人工智能驱动的心理健康教育。
Université Laval’s Institute for Intelligence and Data will work with Claude to deepen researchers’ understanding of how LLMs behave in varied cultural contexts, as well as their understanding of low-resource languages and dialects, such as Quebec French and Indigenous languages.
拉瓦尔大学智能与数据研究所将与 Claude 合作，加深研究人员对大语言模型（LLM）在不同文化背景下表现的理解，以及对低资源语言和方言（如魁北克法语和原住民语言）的理解。
The University of Saskatchewan will use Claude to further its research in areas including biomedical advancements, food and water security, public health, quantum computing, and public service.
萨斯喀彻温大学将利用 Claude 推进其在生物医学进展、食品与水安全、公共卫生、量子计算和公共服务等领域的研究。
The University of Toronto Data Sciences Institute will support a range of research projects through a scientific review-based process to access Claude API credits.
多伦多大学数据科学研究所将通过基于科学审查的流程，支持一系列研究项目获取 Claude API 额度。

In addition to these donations, this summer Anthropic will add Amii, Mila, and Vector to the Anthropic for Startups program, which gives founders building on Claude access to a community and resources to support their growth. Hundreds of Canadian startups affiliated with these institutions will receive at least $5,000 USD each in API credits to continue to develop their businesses. 除了这些捐赠外，今年夏天，Anthropic 还将把 Amii、Mila 和 Vector 加入“Anthropic 初创企业计划”（Anthropic for Startups），该计划为基于 Claude 构建产品的创始人提供社区和资源支持，助力其成长。隶属于这些机构的数百家加拿大初创企业每家将获得至少 5000 美元的 API 额度，以继续发展其业务。

“Some of the foundations of modern AI came out of Toronto, Montréal, and Edmonton— and so, strikingly, did many of the researchers most committed to making it safe,” said Chris Olah one of Anthropic’s co-founders. “I was formed by that culture, and I’m proud Anthropic can support the next chapter.” “现代人工智能的一些基础源自多伦多、蒙特利尔和埃德蒙顿——令人瞩目的是，许多最致力于确保人工智能安全的研究人员也出自这里，”Anthropic 联合创始人 Chris Olah 表示，“我深受这种文化的影响，我很自豪 Anthropic 能够支持这一篇章的延续。”

How Canada is using Claude

加拿大如何使用 Claude

We’re also sharing data that looks at how people across Canada are using Claude. This is drawn from the March 2026 Anthropic Economic Index, our ongoing analysis of how AI is being incorporated into work tasks across the economy. Our economic research is based on data from real-world Claude usage, using a privacy-preserving analysis tool that identifies patterns in use while keeping all user information anonymous. 我们还分享了关于加拿大各地人们如何使用 Claude 的数据。这些数据摘自 2026 年 3 月的“Anthropic 经济指数”，这是我们对人工智能如何融入各行各业工作任务的持续分析。我们的经济研究基于 Claude 的实际使用数据，并使用了一种保护隐私的分析工具，在识别使用模式的同时确保所有用户信息匿名。

We find that Canada ranks eighth worldwide in Claude.ai use. Per person, Canadians use Claude at more than four times the rate the population predicts, and among the 10 countries where Claude is used most, only the US ranks higher. 我们发现，加拿大在 Claude.ai 的使用量方面排名全球第八。按人均计算，加拿大人使用 Claude 的频率是人口比例预测值的四倍多；在 Claude 使用量最大的 10 个国家中，仅有美国排名更高。